Candy Corn Maker Hit With Ransomware
A major candy and food company whose treats are among Halloween staples got tricked in a ransomware attack earlier this month that temporarily froze its production systems.
Ferrara Candy Co., which makes Brach’s Candy...
Group With Potential Links to Iranian Threat Actor Resurfaces
Lyceum, a previously known threat actor associated with targeted attacks on organizations in the Middle East, has resurfaced with new malware and tactics similar to those used by a...
Sinclair Broadcast Group Confirms Ransomware Attack
Sinclair Broadcast Group, a media company and provider of local sports and news stations, has been hit with a ransomware attack that affected some servers and workstations, as well...
NSA, FBI, CISA Issue Advisory on ‘BlackMatter’ Ransomware
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), FBI, and National Security Agency (NSA) today issued an alert about the infamous BlackMatter ransomware, warning that over the past few months two...
Notorious Spyware Tool Found Hiding Beneath Four Layers of Obfuscation
FinFisher/FinSpy, the infamous and highly controversial commercial spyware sold by German firm FinFisher to nation-states and law enforcement for surveillance purposes, now wraps itself in four layers of obfuscation...
US Extradites CardPlanet Operator Back to Russia
CardPlanet operator Aleksi Burkov has been deported to his home country of Russia only 14 months after he was sentenced to nine years in prison by a US judge...
Most Large Enterprises Fail to Protect Their Domain Names
Bad actors have accelerated their purchase of domains that look similar to the brands of the largest 2,000 companies in the world, with 60% of such domains registered to...
75K Email Inboxes Hit in New Credential Phishing Campaign
Some 75,000 email inboxes have been impacted so far in what appears to be an email phishing campaign motivated by credential harvesting.
Security researchers from Armorblox this week reported observing...
Sneaky Android Trojan Siphons Millions Using Premium SMS
A heart rate and pulse tracker. A chat translator. A slime simulator. And a fingerprint "defender." Using more than 200 such low-key applications, a cybercriminal group created a platform...
